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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: It is only right the Minister should have flexibility. We are talking about balance. We are talking about the ability of businesses to change direction and change tack. It would be sending probably an incorrect signal to business saying that we are putting in some ratcheting system that, regardless, will move on. I will not be supporting this amendment. The tone from Government is...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I have some sympathy with what is trying to be done in the Bill. This speaks to low-paid workers, and Deputy O Ríordáin has highlighted the fact there is no opportunity for them. They have to pay to get medical certificates. This is a problem. On the other hand, we have the problem with the employer. Small employers have to pay 70% of the rate and probably have to find...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Pressing these amendments is creating a different logic, which is basically that the problem that has been identified is access to medical certificates. We are saying that for low-paid workers and those who do not have a GP card, ultimately, they have to pay, if they can see the GP on the day they are sick, by the way, which is a significant problem in itself. On Report Stage, the Minister...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: We were discussing a balance. Going from 20 weeks to two does not seem balanced. We are trying to implement a scheme that nearly all employers will abide by, but for those that do not, there has to be a sanction. Two weeks is not an adequate sanction. I welcome that the Minister of State will revert with something more robust.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: The Minister of State has alluded to how, on Report Stage, he will look into providing support to small and micro-sized enterprises. That would be welcome.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that his Department is taking to review the current regulations regarding Ukrainian HGV licences which are not currently recognised by the RSA (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21848/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will respond to an issue (details supplied) with regard to a large number of sold electric vehicle cars arriving very close into dealerships but close to the expiry of the SEAI grant validity period which is due to the semiconductor shortage which has caused major delays in production (details supplied); and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 482. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the county of origin that the heart attack patient numbers derive from in the Irish heart attack audit national report 2017-2020; the total number of patients concerned; the actual transfer times for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21953/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (4 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 483. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the county of origin of heart attack patients highlighted in the Irish Heart Attack Audit National Report 2017-2020 (details supplied); the PCI lab that patients in the cohort were transferred to if any; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21954/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: The commitment for that cath lab was given in 2010.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: That facility did not receive investment for 20 years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I do not underestimate Waterford at all.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: Let me, first, put my green credentials on the record. I have sold commercial green energy solutions. I was part of a consortium that successfully lobbied in Brussels for changes to alternative fuel feedstock specifications. I am no climate denier. The Minister has warned us on many occasions about the urgent need to address climate change and I have a warning of sorts for him. I have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Minister. Indeed, I accompanied the Minister on those initiatives that he discussed, but I say to him: resources, resources, resources. I have seen more reports about the south-east at this stage; I could walk on the paper of them from Waterford to Dublin.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: There is no delivery. The Minister confuses the green agenda with a Government agenda of delivery. The only boots that we have on the ground in the south-east is a chain of chemists and although all of the projects that the Minister has outlined are laudable, none of them is under way as yet. We are being promised, promised, promised. Funding to our airport has not occurred. Funding to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: The Minister has two-and-a-half years done in this Government. I have asked the Minister if he will commit to the delivery not only of the green agenda but to the social and economic agenda of Waterford that it has been crying out for and it has deserved. It has been denied for the past 20 years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: And the most underfunded.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: We have the longest waiting list of any in the country.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: It is the most underfunded model 4 hospital in the country. It is patently obvious we are very efficient but we are totally under resourced.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (28 Apr 2022)

Matt Shanahan: 239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in carrying out of a cost-benefit analysis in relation to the expansion of the footprint of Waterford Institute of Technology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21505/22]